Instructor Animals Sciences Professionalism & Networking Careers class and Introductory Animal Sciences; Collaborate on beef cattle reproduction and endocrinology research with Dr. Alvaro Garcia Guerra, Assistant Professor, Ohio State Department of Animal Sciences and colleagues in the School of Health, Medical, and Applied Sciences Division of Agriculture at CQUniversity; Provide administrative leadership for College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences graduate programs; Collaborate with leadership of the College Advancement team on engaging with Ohio State Animal Sciences alumni

Mentoring students, staff, and academics; Study emphasis on use of precision technologies in food animal agriculture with focus on beef cattle; Gaining perspectives on successful programming of distance education

Primary leadership responsibilities is to provide leadership in strategic planning as related to programs of emphasis in teaching, hiring, personnel development, fiscal management, and physical facilities development/renovation; Developing teaching alliances with others in the College on the Columbus and OARDC Wooster campuses; Fostering a culture of collegiality among faculty and staff at Ohio State ATI; Developing strong external stakeholder relationships, particularly with those in close proximity of the Wooster campus; Providing administrative leadership in facilitating the development of a proposal focused on microbial ecology for the Ohio State University Discovery Theme Initiative; Conducting Annual Performance Reviews of Ohio State ATI tenure track faculty and administrative staff; Promoting excellence in Ohio State ATI undergraduate programs through curricular revisions student assessments of quality of instruction, peer faculty teaching evaluation oversight; and in developing high quality learning assessment metrics at Ohio State ATI; Mentoring of faculty and staff; Championing co-curricular undergraduate student activities (student clubs etc.); Conduct performance evaluations and provide performance assessment feedback for about 25 tenure track faculty members and 5 staff members; Provide fiscal leadership and consult with fiscal officers on a routine basis in managing a $7 million+ budget for personnel and operations; Provide leadership for physical space allocations

Primary leadership responsibilities is to facilitate realignment of the College by combining the physical activity component of the School of Physical Acitivity and Educational Services with the Departments of Human Nutrition, Consumer Sciences, and Human Development and Family Sciences into a department of about 60 faculty members focused on the human sciences with a strong emphasis on human health and wellness; Developing research alliances with the College of Medicine is a primary leadership endeavor, particularly with those in gastrointerology; Providing leadership in fostering excellence in nutritional sciences, and physical acitivity and educational services academic programs, and research through facilitating existing faculty member programs and through employing new faculty members who are excellent in focused areas of scientific endeavor; Promoting excellence in undergraduate and graduate programs through curricular revisions in the Quarter to Semester conversion process and working with faculty members in enhancing quality of instruction (student assessments of quality of instruction, peer faculty teaching evaluation oversight and annual performance reviews), mentoring of faculty;graduate students, and being a champion of co-curricular undergraduate student activities (student clubs etc.); Conduct performance evaluations and provide performance assessment feedback for about 45 faculty members and 10 staff members; Provide fiscal leadership and consult with fiscal officers on a routine basis in managing a $5 million+ budget for personnel and operations of the two academic units; Provide leadership for physical space allocations and physical facility improvements

Along with the Dean and faculty members strategize to further develop strengths of a relatively small Department (11 tenure track faculty) so as to enhance its profile on the OSU campus via strategic alignments with the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and College of Medicine; Assess options for enlarging Department size through re-structuring within the College of Education and Human Ecology; Place a high priority on the global integrated multi-college vision encompassing food production, processing, and composition impacts on human health. Primary focus is strengthening performance review assessment procedures for faculty and enhancing oversight and adherence to promotion and tenure policies and procedures both within Department and College; Advancing two primary research laboratory refurbishing endeavors stalled at the time of appointment is also a primary focus.

Develop at the time of appointment (4 year intervals) Pattern of Departmental Administration and Appointment, Promotion and Tenure documents; Establish in association with faculty members, departmental directions, goals, programs and budget priorities; Provide leadership in fiscal management through focusing funding on programs enhancing interdisciplinary and inter-college research, extension and academic program endeavors; Reduce the Departmental budget through State mandate because of revenue shortfalls in a methodical manner so as to maintain a strong faculty member base and strong programs in primary areas of Departmental excellence; Provide leadership in fostering excellence in Animal Sciences academic programs, extension education and research through facilitating existing faculty member programs and through employing new faculty members who are excellent in focused areas of scientific endeavor; Promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate programs through curricular revisions and working with faculty members in enhancing quality of instruction (peer faculty teaching evaluation oversight and annual performance reviews), mentoring of students, and being a champion of co-curricular activities (student clubs, judging teams, study abroad programs etc); Promote effective relationships with food producing animal enterprises while expanding this focus to encompass food processing and companion animal enterprises; Focus on communicating to other administrators priority programs and activities of the Department; Conduct in depth annual performance assessments in the Animal Sciences of 35 plus faculty and about 10 senior staff members as well as in Human Nutrition 16 faculty and senior staff in a manner so as to communicate how they performed relative to mutually agreed upon expectations communicated in previous annual performance reviews; Make decisions as to annual salary compensations and cash bonus awards aligned with faculty and staff productivity.

Taught Mammalian Endocrinology (graduate/undergraduate) 1979 to 1999, and Reproduction of Domestic Animals (undergraduate), 1979 to 1990; Research emphasis was neuroendocrine regulation of puberty, the estrous cycle, and ovarian follicular and corpora lutea development in cattle; Administered extramually funded research programs; Administered the graduate student program and the Core Research Facilities of the Center for Biotechnology and coordinated teaching of Introduction to Biotechnology Core Facility class

Facilitate collaborations with Dr. Mark Morrison (joint faculty appointment CSIRO Livestock Industries in Australia and OSU Animal Sciences) in research endeavors focused on microbial genomics and metagenomics as related to gut function; Provide leadership for OSU Animal Sciences and College of Veterinary Medicine partnership with the Animal Welfare Science Centre’s three Australian partners (Monash University, University of Melbourne, and Victoria Primary Industries) and facilitate interactions between Australian and OSU scientists through scientist exchanges, joint graduate student education programs, external stakeholder educational endeavors, etc.; Provide leadership for developing interactions between OSU Animal Sciences faculty and Australian collaborators with the Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and Beef Cooperative Research Centre; Provide the vision for annual Australian Study Abroad program whereby about 20 OSU students, most from the OSU Department of Animal Sciences, study for 6 weeks at the University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University; Facilitate faculty teaching exchanges between OSU Animal Sciences and Monash University (faculty member from Department of Psychology teaches an Animals in Society General Education Course at OSU) annually at OSU; faculty member from OSU teaches a meat science class to veterinary science students at James Cook University; and in process of developing a similar teaching relationship with an OSU faculty member teaching at the University of New England

Taught Introductory Animal Science, Reproductive Physiology, Livestock Evaluation and coached the General Livestock Judging Team; Research in collaboration with Dr. Finnie Murray involving the study of uterine function in pigs